For decades, the city of Leicester in the east of England has had a reputation for being a model of cohesion.

One of the most diverse cities in the UK, Hindus, Muslims, Sikhs living peacefully side by side.

Two weeks ago, that all changed.

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Hundreds of mainly young men were involved in violent clashes on the city streets.

In the wake of the fighting, there have been dozens of arrests as well as some very difficult questions left to answer.

I think a lot of people have never been in a position where they have had to confront that kind of thing happening in their own background.

People are living in fear in a city where we haven't experienced this kind of thing.

Muslims and Hindus will be feeling very vulnerable in this.

Trouble began when 300 Hindu men, most of them marched through a predominantly Muslim area, leading to serious disorder.

The next day, Muslim men, joined by supporters from outside of the area, staged a counter protest, which also turned violent.

The disturbances made headlines around the world, not just in India, but in the US, Australia, New Zealand and Canada.

The Hindus have been attacked by Islamist goons who have been attacked by Muslims.

Video shows hundreds surrounding that temple, chanting religious slogans, making up some people believe that the fighting was about a cricket match.

But tensions in the city have been rising for months, only gaining widespread publicity when they reached boiling point.

So how does a South Asian community widely held up as an example of successful integration, find itself so divided?

To answer that question, I've spent several days here in Lester trying to discover what's happened by listening to people from all sides.

As you can imagine, what I found out is that this isn't straightforward, far from it.

It's not about what happened after a game of cricket.

It's not even about Muslims against Hindus or Hindus against Muslims. It's much more nuanced than that.

But to really understand why these divisions have happened, we need to go back nearly 50 years, when South Asian migration really took off here in the late 60s and early 70s.

For decades, Lester's South Asian community has been predominantly made up of Hindus and Muslims, who arrived from the state of Gujarat in India, often via East Africa, where they'd settled after finding work.

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